TY  - BOOK
AU  - Niezen,Ronald
TI  - A world beyond difference: cultural identity in the age of globalization 
SN  - 1405126906 (pbk. : alk. paper)
U1  - 306 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Malden, MA
PB  - Blackwell Pub.
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Cultural pluralism
KW  - Ethnicity
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Group identity
KW  - Human rights
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [204]-212) and index; Introduction -- The tradition of rational utopianism -- The cultural contradictions of globalization -- (Anti)globalization from below -- Human rights pluralism and universalism -- Postmodernism's revolt against order -- The new neo-Marxism -- Paradigms of postcolonial liberation -- Conclusion
N2  - Presents a conceptual and historical map of how we think  about the socio-political world, and how we think  politically about human cultural differences. This work  interprets, criticizes and frames responses to world  culture. It draws from the work of major social theorists,  comparing them to classical social theorists in an  instructive manner
ER  -